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===אדריכלות===
סדרה של רעידות אדמה עזות שפקדו את האי במאה ה-18 הביאו להרס בתי האבן הקולוניאליים שבאי. בעקבות הרס המבנים, נבנו מחדש המבנים (שהיו בסגנון אדריכלות ג'ורג'יאני) כאשר הקמוה העליונה של המבנים הדו קומתיים נבנתה מעץ, על הקומה התחתונה העשויה אבן, במטרה לבנות מבנים אשר קל לשקמם לאחר רעידות אדמה.
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[[Image:Nevis Hamilton.jpg|שמאל|ממוזער|250px|The Museum of Nevis History, Charlestown, housed in the restored Georgian building where [[Alexander Hamilton]] was born. Also see [[Nevis Historical and Conservation Society]]]]
A series of earthquakes during the 18th century laid most of the colonial era stone buildings of Charlestown in ruins. The [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] stone buildings of today had to be partially rebuilt after the earthquakes, and this led to the development of a new architectural style, consisting of wooden upper floors over a ground floor built of stone; the new style resisted earthquake damage more effectively.
בין המבנים הידועים באי הוא מבנה מטע ההרמיטז' (Hermitage Plantation) שנבנתה בשנת [[1740]] מעץ מסוג Lignum vitae. מבנה זה הוא מבנה העץ הקדום ביותר באיים הקריביים. כמו כן ממוקם באי מלון באת' - המלון הקדום באיים הקריביים. מלון זה נבנה על ידי ג'ון האגינס בשנת [[1778]]. במלון זה, אשר נודע במעיין המרפא הסמוך לו, התגוררו [[סמיואל טיילור קולרידג']], האדמירל [[הוריישו נלסון]] והנסיך ויליאם הנרי [[דוכס קלרנס]] (לימים [[ויליאם הרביעי, מלך הממלכה המאוחדת]]).
Two famous Nevisian buildings from the 18th century are Hermitage Plantation, built of [[lignum vitae]] wood in 1740, the oldest surviving wooden house still in use in the Caribbean today, and the [[Bath Hotel, Nevis|Bath Hotel]], the first hotel in the Caribbean, a luxury hotel and spa built by John Huggins in 1778. The soothing waters of the hotel's [[hot spring]] and the lively social life on Nevis attracted many famous Europeans, including [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], Antigua-based [[Admiral Nelson]], and Prince William Henry, [[Duke of Clarence]], (future [[William IV of the United Kingdom]]), who attended balls and private parties at the Bath Hotel. Today, the building serves as government offices, and there are two outdoor hot-spring bathing spots which were specially constructed in recent years for public use.
An often repeated legend appears to suggest that a massive 1690 earthquake and [[tsunami]] destroyed the buildings of the original capital Jamestown on the west coast. [[Folk tales]] say that the town sank beneath the ocean. However, archaeologists from the [[University of Southampton]] who have done excavations in the area, have found no evidence to indicate that the story is true. They state that this story may originate with an over-excited Victorian letter writer sharing somewhat exaggerated accounts of his exotic life in the tropical colony with a British audience back home.<ref>Machling, Tessa (2002). "Jamestown, Morton's Bay and James Fort: Myth, Port and Fort". ''Interim Report for the 2002 Season, Theme Two.'' University of Southampton.</ref> One such letter recounts that so much damage was done to the town that it was completely evacuated, and was engulfed by the sea. Early maps do not, however, actually show a settlement called "Jamestown", only "Morton's Bay", and later maps show that all that was left of Jamestown/Morton's Bay in 1818 was a building labelled "Pleasure House". Very old bricks that wash up on Pinney's Beach after storms may have contributed to this legend of a sunken town; however these bricks are thought to be dumped ballast from 17th and 18th century sailing ships.
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==קישורים חיצוניים==
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